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#19 "haikuish" sashimi ktanka tataki

tataki = haikuish with place
sashimi = haikuish but not a definite place
ktanka = like a tanka
*FF = foto / photo

Missed yesterday. Numbered today. Over 600 on-line and numbered. Quite a few to go.

624 Reading a book — / she sits in a beam / of sunlight [221a]
625 Blue skies, warm / breeze — tranquil before / the brawl breaks out [221b] (UM-UNI)
626 Maroon clad / pairs — they wander down paths / to tonight's game [221c]
627 We of common / blood — even our greatest victories / pass unnoticed [221d]
628 Over cappuccino / and chocolate — she encourages me / to print these poems [221e] (Michele)
629 Cool green / and warm sunshine — one leaf / yellows [221f]
630 Holes where a house / once stood — where (have their) hearts / (now) fled [221g]

221abcd [9/1]; 221 efg [9/4]

631 Smoke and ash — / people frown at the sky / and grimace [224a]
632 He toddles around / the block — hair aflame / with winter [224b] DeAnna Williams "hair aflame with winter"
633 A gasp and a / cough — sky falling / with ash [224c]
634 Smoke hides / the horizon — the sun sets / red and angry [224d]
635 A slice of red / velvet cake — chocolate / by any color [224e]

224abcde [9/7]

636 Empty Kansas / path to nowhere — highway / of stars at night [225a]
637 Smoke gets / in the eyes and nose — / the throat coughs [225b]
638 Weight of paper — / yet so much lost / in the ether [225c]
639 Towers fell and / dust lingered — the fear / never ends [225d]
640 When eyes look / out at me — where are / their pointy teeth [225e]
641 Never at ease / in a group — an eternal / outsider [225f]

225ab [9/8]
225cde [9/11]

642 Act your age / they said - I toss and spin / in my coffin [227a] (toss and turn / sleep)
643 Act your age / they told her — she spins / in her coffin [227aa] (rethought 9/17)
644 Husband (wife) gone, / money gone — her Dodge just left / with her dog [227c] (Joyce)
645 River sand slipping / through old fingers — no one / to share this with [227d]
646 Butt-end ugly / view of the city — a sewer that once / flowed as a river [227e]
647 Time silently slips / by in a silver boat — one man (phantom) / at the oars [227f]
648 A pair of wing- / necked doves — I walk / these paths alone [227g]

226abc [9/15]
226defg [9/16]

649 Green clover, / three dandelions and a bee — / autumn's not here yet [228a]
650 An abandoned / lighter (at Silver Lake) — floating among / white feathers [228b]
651 In a depression / we call a pond — tears / puddle [228c]
652 Yellow leaves hold / on — until the breeze / quickens (end of summer) [228d]
653 Among the gathering / leaf litter — I feel the need / to say goodbye [228e]
654 Ducks pass silent — / light flickers off the ripples / of the pond [228f]
655 A car horn — / (why do we) disturb the peace (tranquility) / surrounding us [228f]

228abcdef [9/16]

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